Payment & Reimbursement

This resource explains protections in federal law, collectively known as “parity,” which are designed to ensure that certain types of health plans cover mental and substance use disorders no less generously than they cover other health issues.

This document provides an overview of essential information necessary for understanding mental health and substance use disorder parity and how to implement and comply with federal parity laws.

This compilation of best practice recommendations and resources provides guidance to initiate and expand MAT programs for OUD for patient populations in a variety of service settings.

This report is intended to support state Medicaid agencies and payers in improving access to substance use disorder treatment, quality, and capacity, with a special focus on medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.

This report explores the use of Value-Based Payment model and the potential to improve delivery of integrated and coordinated substance use disorder treatment services. This page also includes the webinar slides and recording from the presentation on this report.

Using a national Medicaid claims database, this brief estimates the number of pregnant beneficiaries with substance use disorder who lost Medicaid coverage 60 days postpartum at the national and state-level.

This report summarizes barriers and facilitators to providing MOUD at FQHCs and outlines opportunities at the health center, state, and federal level to support the clinical, organizational, and financial capacity to increase access to MOUD.

This case study explores implementation of a medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) program at an organization in the Bronx, New York with a long history as an opioid treatment program (OTP) that also operates an FQHC and a certified community behavioral health clinic (CCBHC)

This case study explores implementation of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) through a federally qualified health center (FQHC) serving as a Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) program in Portland, Maine.

This case study explores implementation of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) at a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in rural California that engages with the broader community to address the opioid epidemic.